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11-letter words containing w, a, f

  • snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
  • soft sawder — flattery; compliments
  • software ag — (company)   A German software engineering company that started with the ADABAS database. Natural is their 4GL development environment, EntireX is their DCOM for Unix and IBM. BOLERO, is an object-oriented development environment and application server specially made for Electronic Business applications. Mailing-list: <[email protected]>.
  • sparrowfart — the very early morning
  • strand wolf — brown hyena.
  • strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
  • swamp fever — leptospirosis.
  • the welfare — the public agencies involved with giving such assistance
  • throw a fit — a sudden, acute attack or manifestation of a disease, especially one marked by convulsions or unconsciousness: a fit of epilepsy.
  • tragic flaw — the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy; hamartia.
  • twelfth day — the 12th day after Christmas, January 6, on which the festival of the Epiphany is celebrated: formerly observed as the last day of the Christmas festivities.
  • twelfth man — a reserve player in a cricket team
  • view factor — The view factor is the degree to which heat carried by radiation can be passed between two surfaces.
  • waffle iron — appliance for cooking waffles
  • waffle slab — a reinforced-concrete floor and roof construction employing a square grid of deep ribs with coffers in the interstices.
  • waffle-iron — a batter cake with a pattern of deep indentations on each side, formed by the gridlike design on each of the two hinged parts of the metal appliance (waffle iron) in which the cake is baked.
  • wage freeze — earnings fixed at current amount
  • wait for it — You say 'wait for it' to stop someone from doing something too soon because you have not yet given them the command to do it.
  • wakefulness — unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep: Excitement made the children wakeful.
  • walfish bay — Walvis Bay.
  • wallflowers — Plural form of wallflower.
  • wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
  • war footing — the condition or status of a military force or other organization when operating under a state of war or as if a state of war existed.
  • war of 1812 — the war between the United States and Great Britain from 1812 to 1815.
  • warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
  • warfighting — (military) The fighting of a war.
  • wasterfully — in a wasteful manner
  • waterfinder — a dowser; water witch.
  • waterfowler — a person who hunts waterfowl for sport or food.
  • waterfronts — Plural form of waterfront.
  • waterproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waterproof.
  • way of life — lifestyle
  • weak safety — a member of a secondary, usually the deepest-playing defender, with no specific assignment at the snap of the ball, but often covering the area of the field across from the weak side of the opponent's offensive line against runs and long pass plays.
  • weatherfish — any of several loaches of the genus Misgurnus, especially the European M. fossilis, which shows increased activity in response to changes in barometric pressure.
  • weatherford — a town in N Texas.
  • welfaristic — characterized by welfarism
  • west africa — most westerly part of Africa
  • west-facing — orientated towards the west
  • wharfingers — Plural form of wharfinger.
  • wharfmaster — a person who manages a wharf
  • what a life — People say 'What a life' to indicate that they are unhappy or are having great difficulties.
  • wheat field — area of land where wheat is cultivated
  • wheat flour — powdered cereal grain
  • wheat sheaf — a sheaf of wheat
  • white dwarf — a star, approximately the size of the earth, that has undergone gravitational collapse and is in the final stage of evolution for low-mass stars, beginning hot and white and ending cold and dark (black dwarf)
  • white friar — a Carmelite friar: so called from the distinctive white cloak worn by the order.
  • white-faced — having a white or pale face.
  • whitefriars — a district in central London, England.
  • whore after — to pursue something immoral or depraved
  • wife-beater — a person who hits his or her wife
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